Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-04
BILL NYE.
Tells All He Knows and Some Things He
Doesn't Know About Oliver Cromwell TO
n Youth In Love.

Youth In Love.
Boston Globe.
Waldemar G. Buffington, New Monis,
Nebraska, writes under date of March TO-
"will You kindly give brief but con-
else account of the early life OF Oliver
Cromwell, in the GEObe9 / have been told
by some of my friends to avoid the charac-
teristics of Cromwell, while Others tell me
to emulate his example. So 1 shall have
to suspend further action in that line till
hear from you through the Globe.
":Will you answer as soon as possible,
and also tell me what would be good
trosso for a young man to get married in"'
Oliver p. Cromwell was born at Hunting
don, April 25, 1899. AS soon as he had
rested himselfa little, he began to look
about him and prepare to make his mark
in history. He was son of Robert Crom-
well, and grandson of Sir Henry Cromwell.
He entered Sidney Sussex College at the
age of II years, and began at once to get
solid with the president. At college Mr..
Cromwell was noted for his devotion to
his studies and the length of time he could
wear his linen without being mObbed' 1t
is said OF Cromwell that he managed to
save enough out of his laundry expenses to
buy himself naturalization and house
and lot on the day Of his graduation.
In 1920 he married Elizabeth Bourchler,
on which occasion he and his wife received
triple plated butter dish, three card re-
ceivers and a photograph album. They
then settled down.
Cromwell was % member of Parliament
for eleven years at one pop, and only made
short speech during that time.
Is it any wonder that Cromwell was be-
loved by his constituency?
trow not.
Cromwell was not regarded rs fluent
speaker, and once when he had Just made
a brief address, in which he had success
fully called for the previous question, Lord
Digby inquired of Hampden who THAT
sloven was"
Cromwell went into the army in 1912.
He soon became a colonel, and in 1914 COM
manded the lett wing which was so vic
torious at Marston Moor on July =.
He did not write an account of it for
publication, with large portrait of him
self on a snorting war horse, with red
nostrils, however, and thus he continued
to endear himself to the people.
Colonel Cromwell allied himself with
the Independents and against the Pres
byterians in the great dissension which oc-
Cured at this time.
Charles ii. resigned as king in May,
1916, owing to brain fay, and in order to
secure much needed rest he surrendered
himself to the Scottish army, which turned
him over to Parliament. For while
Charles seemed to be on the road most OF
the time.
Cromwell was down on the Presbyterians
from the word go" as Macaulay has it.,
and in l64S he fired forty-one Presbyterian
royalists out of of Parliament, Colonel
Pride doing the ejectment act under
divers orders. This was called "Pride's
Purge" for many years, and you can still
read on some of the old fences around here.
USE PRIDE's PURGE.
Cromwell was member of the court
which, in January, 1919, tried the king
and condemned him, giving him sixty
days, together with fine of SIS and trim
mings, with the order that he stand com.
mitted till the fine and costs were fully
paid.
He then went to Ireland to suppress a
small but very hot rebellion, of which Ire
land was at that time passionately fond.
The Scotch now espoused the cause OF
Charles III. and it became q contest be,
tween the Cromwell Close Communion
Baptists, who wished to immense the land
in gore, and the Royal Presbyterians.
Cromwell was now made cOmmander-ln-
chief, with 5000 per month and horse to
ride.
At Dunbar General Crmwell engaged
the royal forces i'll q hand o-hand conflict
on the Sd of September, 1850, at which
time he took 10, 900 prisoners.
In April, 1853, he dissolved the long
Parliament, commonly called the Rump,
telling each Rumpist that his services
would not be required any longer, and
that he had better 60 home and hoe his
corn. A new Parliament was then sum
moned, and Cromwell became the lord
protector of the commonwealth, with an
Office over the First National Bank.
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shift that fall, but he said no, he preferred
the position he then occupied, for he hated
the trappings of royalty. 1t is said that
he took the ermine off the edges Of Charles
IFS reigning robe and made tar tabs fol
the poor, but this may be untrue. Still ht
had q great contempt for royalty, never
having published book on that plan.
Cromwell was stigmatized of course by
the royalists, but he never lost a days
work OF meals victuals on that account
as Carlyle puts it. AS soon as he found
that he was stigmatized he would put {
moist chew of tobacco ON the place, take {
large drink of Scotch whisky with littl,
ginger ale on the side, and you wouldn't
know that he had ever been stignatized
He was long regarded by historians as {
man of cruel temper and mediocre talents
but it is now thought that he was EXTERN
ely otherwise. Colonel Cromwell had hi
failings, it is true, and Of course by many
he will ever be regarded with loathing
aversion and other things of that kind, bu
he was not what might be called mediocre
man, by any means.
On the contrary, he thought the world
Of his wife, and invariably spent his even